Travel Writing and Star Gazing at Utopia Farmstay

What makes a journey memorable? The sights, the sounds, the experiences — but YOUR experiences. Think of it: everyone goes to the Taj Mahal, but when you tell your cousin Revathi about your visit, it’ll be totally different from my story to my Taufeeq-mama. That’s why we long to write about our travels, so we can tell our very particular stories. 

And that’s what this workshop will focus on. The aim will be to push you — and we mean push — to craft something compelling, that will make your readers say “Wow!”

At the end of the workshop, pieces you create during the workshop will also be shared across our social handles if you'd like!

Dilip D'Souza was educated in Pilani, Providence, Delhi, Rishi Valley, Bombay, Cambridge, Austin and places in between. 

Once a computer scientist, he now writes for a living. To Dilip, the switch seemed natural. Computer science stresses clear thinking, reason, logic and getting to the heart of matters. Maybe those things shape his writing. 

He writes about political and social issues, travel, sports and mathematics. His writing has won him several awards, including the Statesman Rural Reporting award, the Outlook/Picador nonfiction prize and the Newsweek/Daily Beast South Asia Commentary Prize; he has also twice been Writer-in-Residence at IIT Kanpur. He has published seven books, a monograph of essays on patriotism, and has contributed to a number of anthologies. His most recent book is “Jukebox Mathemagic: Always One More Number”.

Dilip lives in Bombay with his wife Vibha, children Surabhi and Sahir and cat Cleo. He misses his Rhodesian Ridgeback, Shaka.

Stay at Utopia Farmstay on Sunday Night, All meals (lunch and dinner on day 1, breakfast and lunch on day two), workshop fees